The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

The foreign policy of the Davis-Cooper Government is totally based around Climate change and Slave reparations - regret my grandson writing a paper at his High School blew both of these issues out of the deepest part of the Tongue of the Ocean off Andros. We, The Bahamas, don’t have a case in either to argue.

Climate… Yes Oil Cos knew the use-burning, etc, of fossil fuels would pollute but in 1970 The Bahamas opened an Oil refinery in Grand Bahama — we continue to enjoy positive revenues from the trading of oil so how can we argue or make a case for cash settlement against the polluters? Argument void.

Slaves … From where did slaves originate? No, the European traders did not go to Africa and round up people - far from it they went to the tribal Leaders, some Kings who traded captured persons who they had captured in their wars. So how can the Europeans be blamed? Of course, the obvious the indigenous Indians who inhabited eventually these islands and cays after Columbus arrived either died from European viruses or were taken south to the mines... today there are no descendants of indigenous Arawaks, Taino or Seminole Indians who inhabited parts of the islands. That argument also void - unsubstantiated.

Hurricanes go back 245 years — average Bahamas hit every 11th year by a storm … by far more storms in the 1930’s through the 1990’s … since the 2000 more severe storms, yes. In the 1930’s were there any climate warnings? Argument - DOA again.

Time someone told the truth … thanks Jacob for showing me. Let’s hope those who govern read.

P LOCKHART

Nassau,

September 23, 2023.